Skywiki

Skywiki – The Corporate-Wide Knowledge Portal of Fraport AG

In 2007, the German airport operator Fraport AG set up its corporate Wiki – Skywiki – as part of the “knowledge management“ program. A basic requirement was that all 13,000 employees were to have access to this knowledge data bank. To ensure high acceptance of Skywiki, the software MediaWiki applied by Wikipedia was implemented thus enabling anonymous writing and changing of articles.
After a 1 year long test period there were 140,000 accesses to the Fraport knowledge portal. Approximately 370 authors registered, 1,200 articles were written and 500 files (pictures, PDF documents) loaded.
The reason for the high number of users was not the technology but the active communication of the tools and intensive recruitment of potential authors.